Quilt

Object Name:

Quilt

Object ID:

2000.008

Creator:

Lane, Lucy (1805-1844)Quilter

Place of Origin:

Stratham, NH

Date:

circa 1820

Description:

Quilt. Made by Lucy Lane (1805-1844) of Stratham, NH; c. 1820. Framed whole cloth, constructed of a late 18th-century brown block-printed floral pattern cotton with pencil blue in the center, and a border of an indigo resist print, with a design of stylized floral vines. The brown block print is very pieced, indicating its previous form of a dress. The quilt backing is various reused plain-woven linens, some of which are worn thin from their previous use. One piece of the linen bears the cross-stitched initial "L." Knife edge around all four sides. There appears to be no batting. Simple quilting in a diamond grid with brown and blue cotton thread at six stitches to the inch. Three corners of the blue border are pieced out with a blue and white polka dot print. Hand written in ink on paper, and later removed and mounted on iron-on pellon, label originally attached to the lower right corner of the back: "Presented by Miss Lucy Lane / to her niece Amanda M. Lane / May 15, 1840. / This quilt was made / from a dress which her Grandmother / gave to her, with the request that a quilt might be made of it. / for her to remember her by--"

Material:

Textile
Cotton
Linen

Dimensions:

W-82 L-99 inches

Provenance:

Paper label: "Presented by Miss Lucy Lane to her niece Amanda M. Lane May 15. 1840. This quilt was made from a dress which her Grand Mother gave to her, with the request that a quilt might be made of it, for her, to remember her by." The note refers to either Rachel (Parsons) Colcord Lane (1726-1813) , the second wife of Samuel Lane or Eunice (Colcord) Lane (1763-1836), the wife of Jabez Lane.

Credit Line:

Gift of Priscilla M. Tapley

People:

Lane, Lucy (1805-1844), Lane, Amanda M. (1823-1909), Lane, Rachel (1726-1813), Lane, Eunice (1763-1836), Tapley, Priscilla M. (1927-2022)

Subjects:

Needlework, Quilting, Sewing, Quilts